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Sound is all our dreams of music. Noise is music's dreams of us.

— Morton Feldman

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Source: Sound Noise Varese Boulez, in Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music, edited by Christoph Cox, Daniel Warner. A&C Black, 2004. p. 16.
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